Births on 21 December
2000s
Cooper Flagg
2006
American basketball player (born 2006)
Clara Tauson
2002
Danish tennis player (born 2002)
1900s
Madelyn Cline
1997
American actress (born 1997)
Charlie McAvoy
1997
American ice hockey player (born 1997)
Ben Chilwell
1996
English footballer (born 1996)
Kaitlyn Dever
1996
American actress (born 1996)
Luke Brooks
1994
Australian rugby league footballer
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
1992
American football player (born 1992)
Jamie Oleksiak
1992
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Nic Maddinson
1991
Australian cricketer
Otis (wrestler)
1991
American professional wrestler (born 1991)
Riccardo Saponara
1991
Italian footballer
Mark Ingram II
1989
American football player (born 1989)
Tamannaah Bhatia
1989
Indian actress (born 1989)
Danny Duffy
1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
Perri Shakes-Drayton
1988
English track and field athlete (born 1988)
Khris Davis
1987
American baseball player (born 1987)
Tom Sturridge
1985
English actor (born 1985)
Taylor Teagarden
1983
American baseball player (born 1983)
Steven Yeun
1983
South Korean and American actor (born 1983)
Primo Colón
1982
Puerto Rican professional wrestler
Philip Humber
1982
American baseball player (born 1982)
Tom Payne (actor)
1982
English actor
Marta Fernández (basketball)
1981
Spanish basketball player (born 1981)
Cristian Zaccardo
1981
Italian footballer (born 1981)
Steve Montador
1979
Canadian ice hockey player (1979–2015)
Emiliano Brembilla
1978
Italian swimmer (born 1978)
Charles Dera
1978
American actor, adult entertainer, former exotic dancer and martial artist
Shaun Morgan
1978
South African musician (born 1978)
Rutina Wesley
1978
American actress
Buddy Carlyle
1977
American baseball player (born 1977)
Corey Collymore
1977
Barbadian cricketer
Leon MacDonald
1977
NZ international rugby union player
Emmanuel Macron
1977
President of France since 2017
Freddy Sanchez
1977
American baseball player (born 1977)
Paloma Herrera
1975
Argentine ballet dancer
Karrie Webb
1974
Australian professional golfer
Irakli Alasania
1973
Georgian politician and diplomat
Matías Almeyda
1973
Argentine footballer and manager
Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
1972
Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India
Matthieu Chedid
1971
French musician (born 1971)
Natalie Grant
1971
American singer and songwriter (born 1971)
Julie Delpy
1969
French actress and filmmaker (born 1969)
Mihails Zemļinskis
1969
Latvian politician and footballer
Terry Mills (basketball)
1967
American basketball player (born 1967)
Mikheil Saakashvili
1967
President of Georgia (2004–2007-2008–2013)
Michelle Hurd
1966
American actress
William Ruto
1966
President of Kenya since 2022
Kiefer Sutherland
1966
British and Canadian actor (born 1966)
Glenn Coleman (rugby league)
1965
Australian rugby league footballer
Andy Dick
1965
American comedian and actor (born 1965)
Anke Engelke
1965
German comedian and actress
Kunihiko Ikuhara
1964
Japanese director, writer, artist, and music producer
Joe Kocur
1964
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1964)
Govinda (actor)
1963
Indian film actor and politician (born 1963)
Ryuji Sasai
1961
Japanese musician
Sherry Rehman
1960
Pakistani politician
Florence Griffith Joyner
1959
American track and field hurdle athlete (1959–1998)
Krishnamachari Srikkanth
1959
Former Indian cricketer (born 1959)
Tamara Bykova
1958
Russian track and field athlete (born 1958)
Ray Romano
1957
American comedian and actor (born 1957)
Tony Lewis (musician)
1957
English musician (1957–2020)
Dave Laut
1956
American shot putter
Jane Kaczmarek
1955
American actress (born 1955)
Kazuyuki Sekiguchi
1955
Japanese musician, member of Southern all stars (1955-)
Chris Evert
1954
American former tennis player (born 1954)
András Schiff
1953
British pianist (born 1953)
Betty Wright
1953
American singer (1953–2020)
Joaquín Andújar
1952
Dominican baseball player (1952–2015)
Dennis Boutsikaris
1952
American character actor (born 1952)
Steve Furniss
1952
American swimmer (born 1952)
Steve Perryman
1951
English footballer
Jeffrey Katzenberg
1950
American film producer and media proprietor (born 1950)
Max Maven
1950
American magician and mentalist (1950–2022)
Lillebjørn Nilsen
1950
Norwegian singer-songwriter (1950–2024)
Thomas Sankara
1949
President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987
Nikolaos Sifounakis
1949
Greek politician
Barry Gordon
1948
American actor, singer, political candidate, and presenter (born 1948)
Samuel L. Jackson
1948
American actor (born 1948)
Dave Kingman
1948
American baseball player (born 1948)
Paco de Lucía
1947
Spanish flamenco, classical, jazz guitarist & musician (1947–2014)
List of members of the AVN Hall of Fame
1946
Carl Wilson
1946
American musician (1946–1998)
Doug Walters
1945
Australian cricketer
Michael Tilson Thomas
1944
American conductor, pianist and composer (born 1944)
Zheng Xiaoyu
1944
Chinese official executed for corruption (1944–2007)
Albert Lee
1943
English musician (born 1943)
Walter Spanghero
1943
French rugby union player (born 1943)
Hu Jintao
1942
Leader of China from 2002 to 2012
Carla Thomas
1942
American singer (born 1942)
Frank Zappa
1940
American musician (1940–1993)
Lloyd Axworthy
1939
Canadian politician (born 1939)
Wafic Saïd
1939
Syrian businessman and philanthropist (born 1939)
Larry Bryggman
1938
American actor (born 1938)
Jane Fonda
1937
American actress and activist (born 1937)
John G. Avildsen
1935
American film director (1935–2017)
Lorenzo Bandini
1935
Italian racing driver (1935–1967)
Phil Donahue
1935
American talk show host (1935–2024)
Stela Popescu
1935
Romanian actress
Edward Schreyer
1935
Canadian politician, diplomat, and statesman (born 1935)
Janet Metcalf
1935
American politician (1935–2025)
Giuseppina Leone
1934
Italian sprinter
Hanif Mohammad
1934
Pakistani cricketer
Jackie Hendriks
1933
West Indian cricketer
Robert Worcester
1933
American-born British pollster (1933–2025)
U. R. Ananthamurthy
1932
Indian Kannada-language writer and critic (1932-2014)
Edward Hoagland
1932
American author (1932–2026)
Phil Roman
1930
American animator (born 1930)
Charles Bailleul
1927
French linguist and missionary (1927–2026)
Arnošt Lustig
1926
Czech Jewish writer (1926–2011)
Joe Paterno
1926
American football player and coach (1926–2012)
Wat Misaka
1923
American basketball player (1923–2019)
Itubwa Amram
1922
Nauruan politician
Cécile DeWitt-Morette
1922
French mathematician and physicist
Paul Winchell
1922
American ventriloquist and actor (1922–2005)
Alicia Alonso
1920
Cuban ballerina (1920–2019)
Adele Goldstine
1920
American computer programmer (1920–1964)
Iris Cummings
1920
American swimmer and aviator (b. 1920–d. 2025)
Doug Young (actor)
1919
American voice actor (1919-2018)
Donald Regan
1918
American banker and cabinet official (1918–2003)
Kurt Waldheim
1918
Austrian diplomat and politician (1918–2007)
Heinrich Böll
1917
German writer (1917–1985)
Frank Fenner
1914
Australian virologist (1914–2010)
Arnold Friberg
1913
American illustrator and painter
Josh Gibson
1911
American baseball player (1911–1947)
Seichō Matsumoto
1909
Japanese detective fiction writer (1909–1992)
Käte Fenchel
1905
German mathematician (1905–1983)
Anthony Powell
1905
English novelist (1905–2000)
Luis Arturo González López
1900
Guatemalan politician
1800s
Konstantin Rokossovsky
1896
Soviet and Polish general (1896–1968)
Walter Hagen
1892
American professional golfer (1892–1969)
Rebecca West
1892
British author and journalist (1892–1983)
John W. McCormack
1891
American politician (1891–1980)
Hermann Joseph Muller
1890
American biologist (1890–1967)
Sewall Wright
1889
American geneticist (1889–1988)
Jean Bouin
1888
French middle-distance runner
Frank Patrick (ice hockey)
1885
Canadian ice hockey player
María Cadilla
1884
Puerto Rican writer, educator, women's rights activist
Jan Łukasiewicz
1878
Polish logician and philosopher (1878–1956)
Jaan Sarv
1877
Estonian mathematician
Jack Lang (Australian politician)
1876
Australian politician (1876–1975)
Trevor Kincaid
1872
Canadian-American scientist (1872–1970)
Lorenzo Perosi
1872
Italian composer
Albert Payson Terhune
1872
American author and journalist
George W. Fuller
1868
American engineer (1868–1934)
Maud Gonne
1866
English-born Irish revolutionary and suffragette (1866–1953)
Gustave Kahn
1859
French Symbolist poet and art critic (1859-1936)
Joseph Carruthers
1857
Australian politician (1857–1932)
Thomas C. McRae
1851
American judge
Zdeněk Fibich
1850
Czech composer (1850–1900)
Thomas Bracken
1843
New Zealand poet, journalist and politician
Ernest de Munck
1840
Belgian cellist and composer (1840–1915)
Namık Kemal
1840
Turkish writer and activist (1840–1888)
John H. Ketcham
1832
Union Army general
Bartolomé Masó
1830
Cuban revolutionary and President of the Republic in Arms
William H. Osborn
1820
American businessman (1820–1894)
Thomas Couture
1815
French painter (1815–1879)
Archibald Campbell Tait
1811
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1868 to 1882
Thomas Graham (chemist)
1805
British chemist (1805–1869)
Benjamin Disraeli
1804
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868; 1874–1880)
Achille Vianelli
1803
Italian painter (1803–1894)
Before 1800
Jack Russell (priest)
1795
British priest
Leopold von Ranke
1795
German historian (1795–1886)
Anders Sandøe Ørsted
1778
Danish politician and jurist (1778–1860)
Hermann Raupach
1728
German composer (1728–1778)
John Bradstreet
1714
Canadian politician
Benjamin Schmolck
1672
German writer of hymns
Benedict Arnold (governor)
1615
Rhode Island statesman (1615–1678)
Roger Williams
1603
English Baptist minister, theologian, author, and founder of Rhode Island
Petro Mohyla
1596
Eastern Orthodox Saint, Metropolitan and reformer
Man Singh I
1550
Raja of Amber from 1589 to 1614
Thomas Allen (mathematician)
1542
English mathematician and astrologer (1542–1632)
Luigi d'Este
1538
Italian cardinal (1538–1586)
Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton
1505
English politician (1505–1550)
William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers
1468
English aristocrat
Masaccio
1401
15th-century Italian Renaissance painter
Minamoto no Yorinobu
968
Founder of the Kawachi Genji)